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Volunteering Archive

Dear Rose and Kieran, I am writing to thank you for taking care of me when I fell from my bike during the Claremorris Cycling Club charity event on 16 September last. You literally saved my life by the promptness of your actions and the way you treated me on the side of the road […]

Do you wish you could change the world? Don’t we all! Gandhi said, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do” Here, […]

After beating cancer, Thomas and his wife Mary were determined to continue leading a very active social life, they found that there was a lack of health based programmes for their age group in their local area. Then they found something in their local paper…

My name is Cormac and as well as being a student at Dublin City University and working part time on a restaurant, I am a volunteer with the Irish Red Cross in Carlingford-Omeath. As a volunteer I have trained in first aid, learning multiple ways to treat injuries and save lives. You never know when […]

The spring months have been a busy time for the Irish Red Cross Corrib Mask Rescue team, with lake and river call-outs in the Galway region. Spring’s stormy weather has created difficult conditions for many people. In February, the team rescued two people near Oughterard who were caught out in a storm. Whilst April saw […]

What made you want to volunteer? I was kidnapped in Accra Ghana in October 2007 and held for six Days. I swore to myself, if I got away, I would do something usefully with my time for charity. There was an advert on Clare FM for volunteers to fundraise for Cahercalla Hospital and in turn […]

Andrew Patton, a 23 year old Irish Red Cross volunteer and medical student, has spearheaded a life saving community project by setting up the Dalkey Community First Responders. A Community First Responder is a volunteer trained in basic life support and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) who assists the ambulance service by […]

Meet Thomas Cox from Galway. I’ve been a volunteer with the Irish Red Cross since I was a youngster, back in 1980. Friends I made on my first day are still close friends today and new members become friends too, very quickly. I’m lucky that my two youngest children are current all Ireland Irish Red […]

Two Clonakilty volunteers embarked on a roundtrip of more than 500 miles to help a patient. John O’Carroll and Ray Lyons drove from Clonakilty, county Cork, to Bangor, North Wales, to bring home a patient who had suffered a stroke whilst on holiday. The patient, a Welsh man in his 50’s, suffered a stroke whilst […]